Here is our Sunday Gathering sermon archive, perfect for if you have missed a Sunday, want to hear something again or want to share with a friend.
Dan Sheed finishes our Faithful Presence series by wrapping it up simply with an analogy on how John wrote 1 John and a few key reflections. (Note, it's Mother's Day today so our gathering had another element that shortened our message time down significantly.)
“John’s letter has been like a set of music, and here the final chord of the song rings out: “Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.””
Cameron Thorp shares a powerful talk from 1 John 5:1-12 on the absurd victory at work in the world and what that means for us today.
“The Christian story of the cross is the ultimate punk that disrupts our idealogies and answers, and frees us to move towards true connection with others. Faithful presence is empathy in the absurd.”
Strahan Coleman continues our Faithful Presence series, looking at God's radically faithful love and what that means for us.
“Holy Spirit, help me let you love others through me today.”
Guest speaker Mathew Newton shares in our Faithful Presence series, exploring how we are to live life right now as people with one arm out to the broken world and one arm out to God's love.
“We can be Christ only this way: holding onto the brokenness of the world with one hand and the love of God with the other. In this cruciform-shaped tension is how the love of God is going to be able to bring healing from here to there.”
Dan Sheed continues our Faithful Presence series, looking at 1 John 3:1-10 where John is making a bold call: we are children of God and have a new way of being in God as a result.
“For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Strahan Coleman takes us further in our Faithful Presence series, speaking on what it is to be earthy, not worldly, and to take our vocations seriously as people of the Kingdom.
“To be a witness is to be a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.”
Amanda Pilbrow shares the next part of our journey through 1 John, drawing us to see that John is going after a big problem in this section: to believe anything less than seeing ourselves in the way God sees, we have reverted to the old problem again.
“The work has already been done, the homerun has already been struck outside of the stadium, but we keep getting stuck on first base ... Seeing ourselves through our own eyes, our own works, our own actions, our own perceptions, we miss the homerun that Christ has already achieved.”
Dan Sheed continues our series through 1 John, looking at verses 1:5-2:2, a section that shows the contrast between a God who is light, and the shadows we find in our lives and the world as a result of sin.
“Nothing is going to change in the Congo until you and I figure out what is wrong with the person in the mirror.”
Dan Sheed shares some helpful advice on reading the Bible and then we start our journey through 1 John, looking at the first four verses as an intro.
“What are we talking about when we talk about God?
John immediately gets our attention with his opening words: no doubt about it, we are talking about Christ.”
Cameron Thorp shares the third part of our Faithful Presence series, looking at how faithful presence means being placed right where you are right now, and noticing the compassionate actions to take as a result.
Dan Sheed shares the second part of our new series, "Faithful Presence" and looks at Matthew 5 where Jesus says that we are the light of the world - but there are some things to consider around that.
Ideal for a phone wallpaper
Dan Sheed kicks off our brand new series with this opener from Psalm 107:43. (Note, due to an extreme technical difficulty this is a re-recorded version of this talk)
Ideal for phone wallpaper
Dan Sheed finishes our summer series inspired by the book "You are what you love" by looking at how our practices shape our loves, and in particular we celebrate the Church's practice of the communion table.
“To imitate Jesus well, we must regularly place ourselves in practices that help us to do this. These well-worn places shape what story we live in - they shape what loves we end up having.”
Dan Sheed continues our summer series, looking at how when we look at our habits and practices, we may not love what we think.
“Be intentional about your habits, because your habits reveal your loves, and when you have a good look at them you may be surprised to find that you don’t love what you think.”
We kick off 2017 with a summer series inspired by the book "You are what you love" by James K. A. Smith. This week, Dan shares on the power of asking what we want and looking at how that shapes what we do.
““Becoming a follower of Jesus is more than knowing what Jesus wants you to believe. It’s loving what Jesus loves.””
We finish 2016 by reflecting on our Good Gifts initiative, Dan Sheed lands the series and we hear an important prophetic word that has been brewing up for a few weeks.
“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it is with your soul.”
Dan Sheed takes us through the third part of our "And I will give you rest" series, looking at how rest is trust in what God is doing when we can't do anything,
“Be still in the presence of the Lord,
and wait patiently for him to act.”
Dan Sheed continues our series "And I will give you rest." looking at how rest is intrinsically tied to freedom and how to live it out joyfully.
“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”
Dan Sheed kicks of our new series "And I will give you rest" where we look at how work and rest is a rhythm to find.
“Sabbath is deliberate interference.”
Guest speaker, Jacinda Lilly, shares with us a challenge to keep being people who say "yes" to what God is leading us towards: both as individuals and a growing church.
“Every “yes” means a change to the status quo - we must always be ready for change. This is part of a what it is to be dynamic.”
